By Jesus Perez, Farm Steward Summer program was a success, but another success that I enjoyed was the Friday night class (niños class). I worked with an amazing group of youth that are willing to learn new things. Every week, we prepared food for 30 people in 3 hour...
To celebrate our final greenhouse class of the fall the Youth Farmers decided we should have a party. With music, decorations, dancing, courtyard soccer, gummy worms, and guests, we celebrated the past seasons accomplishments. This fall there was a lot of be proud...
Today we are wrapping up what has been a spectacular series of cooking classes this fall. Starting at the end of September, Farm Steward Alice Martin began exploring seasonal cooking with West Side youth. Over the 9 week series the class has utilized a fresh fall...
We’ve had a bountiful harvest of apples this fall from our trees in Lyndale. We have three different varieties growing between our Pillsbury and Horn Towers Farms. We spent a couple weeks in September freezing and canning apple sauce with our Farm Stewards,...
Fall is maybe my favorite time of year at Youth Farm. Our programs slow down, food is pouring in, and we have the chance to get our hands dirty while reflecting on another summer program succesfuly completed. This season we’ve kept our Farm Stewards busy in the...
This year we filled a row at the Robert Street garden with 29 Brandywine and 29 Rose Tomato plants. Each takes approximately 78 days to mature and those 78 days have felt like an eternity. We watched in anticipation all summer long and they’ve finally arrived....
